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I had the opportunity to visit the O concept store and have a look at the amazing Alondra Baby collection just launched for the first time in the UAE. For those of you who don’t know…Alondra is a Spanish brand, which started in the middle of the 80’s by manufacturing baby accessories. but after a successful decade, the company shifted its focus to the production of baby furniture and bedding.

The brand ALONDRA in other parts of the world have become an internationally recognized leader in the field of nursery equipment over the last few years.The success is definitely based on several factors: innovation, striking designs, high quality and impeccable finishes.

Present in more than 50 countries, and offering a vast variety of products Alondra has managed to earn the trust of more than 800 partners worldwide.With keeping the comfort in mind, Alondra Baby collection surely strives with amazing looking products and the latest design trends into the baby rooms.

Here’s a little glimpse of the Alondra collection.

ALONDRA CRIBS COLLECTION

Easy To Move Around With Four Wheels Installed With Brake LocksAvailable In A Vast Variety Of Colors

ALONDRA KIDS TEPEE TENT

The Extra Cosy Teepee

ALONDRA COT COLLECTION

Each Alondra cot collection is designed elegantly and beautifully,transforming and serving a different purpose according to a child’s age.

Alondra Kurve Cot

Such an elegant design

The Kurve turns from a cot to a handy toddler bed, to a desk.With contemporary cool style, this design adds a simple yet an elegant style to the nursery with its stunning good looks in bold white and warm oak tones, rounded corners and polished chrome steel feet.

That’s some serious transformation from a single piece of nursery furniture!

Alondra Maths Cot

It’s All About Adding Colors To The Nursery

These cots are ideal for limited spaces. You can combine them with a bath – changing unit, which will provide you with additional storage options.

This stylish baby cot converts into a toddler bed with by simply replacing one of the side panels with the safety guard included. Its contemporary and iconic design comprises a high gloss finish, premium quality materials and available is in various colours.

Alondra Joy Cot

From Baby to Kid to Junior Bed

This cot is ideal for trendy parents who look for design, safety and quality in the same product. Once the baby outgrows the cot, it can be assembled as a small bed, which lengthens its useful life before the child sleeps in a junior bed. Mattress, textiles and decoration items not included though but this is one ideal piece of furniture that parents would seek for.

Not only this Alondra Baby collection has a variety of other good-looking products to offer like bath changers, accessories, decor and bags textiles and Mattresses as well.

This brand has surely become my favorite with its stylish and simple yet elegant designs too sad that my daughter has already passed her toddler stage and I have no plans for any more kids

But nevertheless,to check out the whole wonderful collection and know more about it do visit the website https://www.alondra.ae

Leap Frog introduces another educational toy, a cuddly plush companion Read with me Violet 🐶that every toddler/child would love to have.Its a great companion to keep the little ones busy on a plane ✈️/ car 🚗(anywhere while traveling). I bought this for Princess Z a few months back and seriously speaking I haven’t seen her spend so much time with any other toy than Violet.She loves spending time with her,listening to stories and lullabies.

Violet (the name of the plushy toy) is an interactive dog that features;

Violet responds to every hug,pet and kiss (by touching/pressing her touch points) which are on her head,back,cheek and paws.Who doesn’t like to be loved 😘.
The number button on her collar are the books numbering ,select the story number and she starts reading once you switch on the story time mode also, by just patting her head she will move on to the story ahead.

The buttons on her collar indicates the book numbers

This plushy puppy 🐶makes reading fun with 5 interactive read-aloud books narrated by Violet herself in a soft clear voice.The 5 different book genres offer ways to build up early reading skills as the kids are exposed to different storytelling concepts.Books to help children learn to ❤️ reading).

Down below are the 5 different book genres that come with Violet;

The 5 book genres

1.Let’s Go Camping (Pattern Book)-uses rhyme, repetitions and refrains that invite children to make predictions.

2.Lets Find Violets Toy (Narrative Book)- helps children learn how stories are put together.A story with characters,settings and sequence of events

3.Lets Have A Party (Concept Book)- explores colors,shapes,or letter,all about learning new labels and classifying new information.

4.Lets Cheer Up El! -Helps learn about the sounds that make up language,encouraging them to explore the building blocks of speech.

and lastly

5.Lets Learn About The Weather (Learn-About)- Helps reveal the information about the
things around us.

The best part it sings too…just switch on the sleepy mode when it’s time to snuggle and listen to stories/ 8 mins of lullabies

The lullabies are a part of Princess Z’s life (every bedtime routine).They help her fall asleep every night.This will come very much in handy…u know 😉.

Note: the music paw button needs to be pressed after every 8 minutes too repeat.

If your child loves reading/listening to stories/lullabies then this is the perfect plushy for them

When everyone is busy expressing their love to their life partners. I tend to spend this day and time with the people I love the most,my family. This Day for me is mostly about expressing love and gifting each member of my family a special gift.Whether it’s just by flowers,chocolates or special hand made cards/crafts made at home.I am teaching Princess Z the same concept to give out and express her love to the people who means to her the most,and the way we do that is by making home made cards/ related DIYs for everyone around.

I think there is no other better way of receiving and sending out special home made special Valentine DIY crafts by the little ones on this special day.(It’s always great to add their special touch).
So as Valentine’s Day is approaching soon thought of sharing 2 simplest and LOVE-ly crafts that we made at home together to mark the special day.

Love Hand
This craft is very simple you will need:

-A hand 🖐🏻print cutout,(brown colored paper would make it look more realistic)

-Different sizes and colors of hearts cutouts

Tracing Princess Z’s hand 🤚

Once your done with the above steps,all you need to do now is to glue the hearts on the hand.and Voila!

Sticking on the hearts

It’s done 🙂
Super simple and easy!

Note: To make it stand, just cut out a strip and attach it to the hand below,fold it and join the ends with either glue/tape.

Flowers using Ice-cream sticks

This is the cutest craft and can be made in many ways ,for this all you will need is:

-A few heart cutouts (depends on the no.of petals you need for your flower)(three,four,five or more petals up to you)

-Ice Cream sticks (colored/plain ice cream sticks)

-Leaf shape cutouts

All you need for the craft

Start by sticking the heart shaped petals together forming a flower.Once done glue/tape the flower on the stick adding the leaves.

Note:Colored balls,stickers or cutout hearts can be added to hide the center joint.

Blue flowerPurple flower

Note: Different colored big/small flowers can be made forming a bouquet 💐

If your planning to stay back this valentines with your kids than these super easy crafts are to be done for sure.

Benefits:Creating memories,having fun and getting to spend time together 👧🏻👩🏻.

As it’s winters Princess Z and I decided of doing a craft related to snow.As Princess Z has never seen a snowfall (we didn’t travel anywhere this year) couldn’t think of a better way of creating snowflakes and having winter in her own room.I had to practice a lot to get it right.Once I remembered the steps.We moved on making Snowflakes using two colors,red and white.These can be used as a hanging decoration or can be glued on a greeting card. .Any other color can be used according to your choice.

PLEASE NOTE this craft has to be done under adult supervision (the adults need to do the folds and cutting.The kids can do the last decoration part.

It might be hard at first but once you get the steps it’s a piece of cake!! 😊This is one of the easiest crafts to do(just needs a bit of practice).This craft can be made in summer and there are no chances of it to melt down 😜.(Winter will stay all summer).Follow the instructions below to create your very own snowflakes.The more you create the better.

Note:The basic steps are below to help create the ❄️ fold.The design can be made according to your choice.

The Basic FoldThe Same Basic Fold but different Design

Note: The basic steps are taken from another social media site.To make it easy to remember and create your very own snowflakes.

If your a mama or a mama to be then listed below are the must have baby products according to me you should have at home in stock 🏡.I have used all of the products below and have been using them till date.

Mustela Stelatopia Emollient Cream-If you child is suffering from severe dry skin.(or dry patches on her body) Stelatopia Emollient Cream is the best solution.It soothes and nourishes the skin causing less irritation.Available at all leading pharmacies as well as at babyshop.

Philips AVENT combined Baby Food Steamer and Blender Machine-Whether it’s making veggie purree for a one-year old or steamed vegetables for a grown up this product is a life-saver.Simply just pop the veggies in,steam,then turn the jug upside down and blitz.You mumz will love it and this product will surely make your life easier.(definitely a must have item).Healthy homemade baby food at your fingertips.Available at babyshop as well as on mumzworld.com

Water Wipes-If only I knew about these before.Got introduce to these a few months back and seriously they are the best wet wipes you could go for.Totally natural and pure and chemical free with only two ingredients, 99.9% filtered water and 0.1% grapefruit seed extract.They are extra gentle and great for the baby’s sensitive skin.Available online at www.beautifulbrands.ae,miniexchange.com as well as on mumzworld.com

Mothercare Baby liquid Talc-I have been against using raw baby powder since I found out that they cause ovarian cancer,since then I have been using the liquid talc from Mothercare.This talc soothes on as a liquid and dries to a soft,silky powder leaving your baby’s skin feeling soft.Available at all Mothercare stores.

Sudocrem-One of the best creams for rashes.I have been using it for a long time now and it really works.For those of you who don’t know Sudocrem is a medicated cream primarily used for nappy rash.It can also be used to treat eczemas,bedsores,acne and minor burns.Available at all leading pharmacies,babyshop as well as on mumzworld.com

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Hello! and welcome to my blog.I'm Alina(the mama behind this blog). I'm from Karachi, Pakistan.Dubai has been my home for the past 26 years.(Have been brought up and raised here to Dubai). I graduated from the American University in Dubai with a degree in Interior Design. Read More…